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Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis addresses what is
arguably the most crucial issue of human history through the lens
of late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century Irish poetry. The
poets that it surveys range from familiar presences in the
contemporary Irish literary canon - Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon,
Paula Meehan, Moya Cannon - to lesser-known figures, such as the
experimental poet Maurice Scully, contemporary poets Stephen Sexton
and Sean Hewitt, and the Irish-language poets Simon O Faolain, Brid
Ni Mhorain, and Maire Dinny Wren. Adopting a variety of
ecotheoretical approaches, the essays gathered here address several
interrelated themes crucial to the climate crisis: the way in which
the scalar scope of climate change interweaves local and global,
distant past and imminent future, nature and culture; the critical
importance of acknowledging the complex kinship of the human and
nonhuman; and the necessity of warning against the devastating
environmental losses to come while mourning those that already
occurred. Ultimately, by envisioning new ways of existing on an
earth that humans no longer dominate, this book engages in what the
philosopher Jonathan Lear refers to as a process of 'radical
anticipation'.
In recent years the choice of a given solvent for performing a
reaction has become increasingly important. More and more,
selective reagents are used for chemical transformations and the
choice of the solvent may be determining for reaching high reaction
rates and high selectivities. The toxicity and recycling
considerations have also greatly influenced the nature of the
solvents used for industrial reactions. Thus, the development of
reactions in water is not only important on the laboratory scale
but also for industrial applications. The p- formance of
metal-catalyzed reactions in water for example has led to several
new hydrogenation or hydroformylation procedures with important
industrial applications. The various aspects of organic chemistry
in water will be prese- ed in this book. Recently, novel reaction
media such as perfluorinated solvents or supercritical carbon
dioxide has proven to have unique advantages leading to more
practical and more efficient reactions. Especially with
perfluorinated solvents, new biphasic catalyses and novel
approaches to perform organic reactions have been developed. These
aspects will be examined in detail in this volume. Finally, the
performance of reactions in the absence of solvents will show
practical alternatives for many reactions. More than ever before,
the choice of the solvent or the solvent system is ess- tial for
realizing many chemical transformations with the highest
efficiency. This book tries to cover the more recent and important
new solvents or solvent systems for both academic and industrial
applications.
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